Open Data Science Leader Links the World of Spreadsheets to the
“Alternate Dimension” of Data Science; Simplifies Collaboration Between
Business Analysts and Data Scientists

February 08, 2017 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

AUSTIN, Texas--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Continuum
Analytics, the creator and driving force behind Anaconda, the
leading Open Data Science platform powered by Python, today announced
the release of Anaconda Fusion, an Open Data Science integration for
Microsoft Excel®. Anaconda Fusion combines Anaconda
Enterprise with Microsoft Excel, empowering business analysts to
collaborate effectively with data scientists and providing access to a
wide range of predictive analytics in Python, without leaving Excel.

“By
combining Excel with the power and flexibility of Python-powered Open
Data Science, Anaconda Fusion puts powerful new capabilities in the
hands of business analysts making it easier than ever to communicate and
collaborate with data science teams effectively.”

“Excel has been the cornerstone of the business analyst toolkit for
years, but when it comes to advanced analytics and Big Data, it can be
limiting,” said Peter Wang, CTO & co-founder of Continuum Analytics. “By
combining Excel with the power and flexibility of Python-powered Open
Data Science, Anaconda Fusion puts powerful new capabilities in the
hands of business analysts making it easier than ever to communicate and
collaborate with data science teams effectively.”

With the introduction of Anaconda Fusion, users can leverage the power,
flexibility and transparency of Python for data science using the Excel
environment they are already comfortable with. There are zero
programming skills required with Anaconda Fusion as functions,
parameters and documentation created by data scientists are shown
through an easy-to-use interface. Contextually-relevant and interactive
visualizations generated from Python notebooks are easily embedded into
spreadsheets, giving business analysts the ability to make sense of,
manipulate and easily interpret data and predictions. This enables
functionality far beyond Excel and simplifies collaboration between
business analysts and data scientists.

Connect MS Excel to Open Data Science. With Anaconda Fusion,
open source packages such as scikit-learn for predictive analytics,
pandas for data transformations, and Bokeh for rich, interactive
visualizations can be accessed from within the familiar Excel
environment.

Leverage data scientists’ notebooks easily through MS Excel.
Excel users can run data science analysis (such as predictive models,
interactive visualizations and Big Data queries) through a simple and
familiar user interface (UI) without having to write any code.

Access all the power of Python and Big Data, natively embedded
inside MS Excel. Anaconda Fusion allows users to run Python code
in their spreadsheets to perform advanced transformations, modeling
and querying of data stored in their spreadsheets, databases and
Hadoop.

Anaconda is the leading Open Data Science platform powered by Python,
the fastest growing data science language with more than 13 million
downloads to date. Continuum Analytics is the creator and driving force
behind Anaconda, empowering leading businesses across industries
worldwide with solutions to identify patterns in data, uncover key
insights and transform data into a goldmine of intelligence to solve the
world’s most challenging problems. Anaconda puts superpowers into the
hands of people who are changing the world. Learn more at continuum.io.

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